OXFAM IBIS FAIR RECOVERY STRENGTHENED CIVIL SOCIETY AND MEDIA FOR FISCAL JUSTICE REGIONAL

Putting African governments on a path to a fair recovery will require governments regional and international actors to redouble their efforts to strengthen progressive and gender sensitive tax collection while at the same time reversing the plans for austerity halt the debt crisis and put an end to harmful Illicit Financial Flows that all conspire to undermine public budgets and weaken the link between increased tax and development outcomes. The project will strengthen the capacity of civil society and investigative journalists to push for fiscal justice putting the financing of the SDGs and a strengthened social contract at its heart. The programme will focus on three countries Ghana Uganda and Kenya. In addition the programme will seek to influence regional economic communities the African Union and global institutions and donor countries to create the conditions that will support African governments to pursue fiscal justice in response to the crises.Objective 1 Tax revenue and public budgets are expanded and made significantly more progressive and gender sensitive in the target countries (Uganda Kenya and Ghana).Objective 2 Regional and global institutions policies and agreements support the fulfilment of fiscal justice in African countires.